This Broken Social Scene offshoot strums, bangs, and stumbles in a continuously evolving mass of sound that never seems to repeat itself and is wholly unpredictable. Overlapping melodies from a series of acoustic instruments and voices--along with a dense, bouncy rhythm section--come together to form a danceable, moody psychedelic stew. What makes the music even more confounding is it sounds like it was recorded in a giant, dark cave.
The debut for this Broken Social Scene offshoot trio stars the BSS guitarist/vocalist Andrew Whitman. Produced by "You Forgot it in People"'s studio wiz David Newfield and featuring performances by Brendan Canning, Kevin Drew, Feist, Amy Millan and more. Unclassifiable as to genre, but Whitman calls it "minor key mood music," with elements weepy, obscure, languorous, percussion-layered, private, dark, and lovely.